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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.  
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite pu...  
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And t...  
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.  
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known...  
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, wh...  
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and thro...  
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.  
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prov...   Love
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome th...  
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, ...  
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.  
For, thus friends absent speak.  
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say,...  
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.  
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years,...  
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.  
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after ...  
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, ...  
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.  
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing...  
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the con...  
O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.  
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.  
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.   Faith
Running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, e...  
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are clo...  
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but transl...  
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.